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well-horned

well-horned adjective: having large or fine horns or antlers.

Adjective

well-horned (comparative better-horned, superlative best-horned)

  1. Having large or fine horns or antlers.
    • The best horned cattle are those of Dalecarlia.1844, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Vol. XLVII, p. 131, https://books.google.ca/books?id=sGsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA131&dq=%22best-horned%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAro7Apf3MAhUJx2MKHSeMCJ...
    • In races of sheep where both sexes are equally well horned castration has no effect on the development of horns (the same thing applies in the analogous case of reindeer. […]).1923, Richard Goldschmidt, translated by William Dakin, The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination, Methuen & Co., page 153

Examples of well-horned in a sentence

  • Bikehandles was a well-horned billy-goat.1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 186:
  • Piebald males often tolerate the presence of several other well-horned males in their vicinity but these can always be graded by colour and clearly represent hierarchically ordered age-classes.2015, Jonathan Kingdon, The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals, 2nd edition, Bloomsbury, page 586:

Forms of well-horned

comparativebetter-horned
superlativebest-horned
alternative formwell horned

Questions about well-horned

What does well-horned mean?
Well-horned means having large or fine horns or antlers.
How do you use well-horned in a sentence?
Bikehandles was a well-horned billy-goat.
What part of speech is well-horned?
Well-horned is an adjective.

Words near well-horned in the dictionary

  1. well-groomed
  2. well-grounded
  3. well-handed
  4. well-handled
  5. well-heeled
  6. well-horned
  7. well-house
  8. well-houses
  9. well-hung
  10. well-informed
  11. well-intended

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